Quote:
Originally posted by St. Anky:
in my experience; in order to satisfy my quest for truth, I've had to take myself out of my christian upbringing and look at all of the religions of the world from a neutral stance. thats the only way to make a just decision. sure i can go out and explore other religions, but if i always hold onto my christian beliefs, i will never truly gain anything from my journey, i will always look at islam, judaism, buddhism, and every other religious dogma in a doubtful, non-believing way.
|
thanks Fruit.
St. Anky--maybe your quest for truth shouldn't be for a religion. No matter what perspective you look at it from, you will always have your biases. If you were to truly put yourself in an Islam's position--would you believe what they had to say?
I predict you wouldn't. You said yourself you were raised in a Christian home, and you are doubting it now...or trying to bring doubt to it.
Would anything you are saying now be any different if you grew up in that position??
Maybe if your culture deemed that you shouldn't think for yourself. Or if you weren't allowed to use the internet...then you couldn't have made the post...but I don't think we need to go that far into it.
'Religion' will never give you any answers...imho
[ February 10, 2004, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: AcTivE ]